Here are some ideas to get you started any place, any time.
- Write in your notebook nonstop for 10 minutes. Write anything that comes to mind no matter how boring or crazy. Let your ideas flow and turn your self editor off. It doesn't have to be right, just words and ideas. Read over what you wrote and pick one word or idea that appeals to you. Now write about that!
- Write a list of ideas that come to you when you think of a particular color (or place, or thing, or whatever). Try to think of as many different ideas as you can. Now write a poem in which you connect the ideas to discover something new about the topic or even about yourself.
- Find a picture of a person (or a real live person that you see out somewhere) and fill in four boxes. 1) Who is this? Make up a name, age, background, etc. 2) What is his/her problem? 3) What is his/her decision 4) What is the consequence of the descision? Now write up that story!